The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1887-07-06
Farm, Garden and Household.

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FRI. Brown, Of Ontario Agricultural
co ilrc. considers the Devon as n ofthe
most desirable COWS for butter making
4" r',nd, rangy pastures. She is con-
tented, hardy and gives a fair supply OF
rich milk.
Here is a bit of wisdom from the Hus-
bandman: "a good thing for any farmer
to do on a summer day when he can
spare the time is to take his wife in his
best Garage with a safe horse in front,
and drive along neighboring farms to see
how crops look, how they are cultivated
to look at the orchards and gardens, in
short, to get new ideas and the freshen-
ing that a day of rest gives"
Continued exercise is the best plan for
keeping horses shoulders from Calling,
but it should be accompanied during win
ter with good feed. The idea that there
is any economy in keeping a horse on
poor rations in winter is a great mistake.
The neglect of FEEDING and ex ,rcise sof-
tens the muscles and great care is taken
NAV induce gals on the shoulders in
spring, which will un6. the animal for
work half the summer. But however
well prepared teams may be for spring
work they will require some extra rare
at first. Stop them, pun back the Collars
and remove dirt and sweat ut every
round. Ifthis is done tho first few days
it will be easy to keep the team in condi.
ton for work all the season.
Hens should have all the milk they
will eat. No kind Of food. unless it
be eggs, is better adapted to egg produc.
ton. Sour milk mixed with bran will
not fattcn them, but if given freely the
dishes in which their feed is kept will
need frequent cleaning to prevent them
from becoming offensive. Fowls having
a range will do well enough with one
feed a day, as this will encourage activity
in scratching and picking up what they
can. This one feed should be given ut
early daylight in the morning. They
will have a ravenons appetite then, an
can he given a large feed without injury.
If fed frequently through the duy fowls
learn to stand around waiting and s,nn
become lazy and good for nothing besides
being more liable to disease.
l On rasionally see a plan of call raising
on skinned milk in the agricultural and
dairy papers, giving various processes, AZ
If were quite n difficult matter. | give
you my own way, simple as possible and
quite successful. When the calfissuc,ess
lully pqrn it is allowed to suck its dam.
two or three times, that the medicinal
qualities of the new milk mot then fit for
use) may leanse the bowls of the calf
from the total matter within it, for
which the two or three musings from
the dam are sufficient. Amer that the
calf. by aid ofthe attendants finger, soon
| arms to drink the new milk in a bucket
warm from the cows udder, for about a
week. For another week new and skim
med milk. half and half in quantity. is
mixed and given to ittwice a day. From
that time onward purely skinned milk
only is given night and morning, what
ever it may need. The milk must DO
warmed to blood heat. Cold milk may
cause scouring-always to be avoided il
possible; and when it occurs a little
wheat flour may be mixed with il, which
in most cases will shortly correct it. As
soon us the calf will eat n little cut hay
with meal on it, or even well cured clov-
er hay in the coleer months give it all Il
will eat of that food and continue the
milk until five or SIX months old, and
even longer ifyou have the milk To spare
Never stunt the calf in growth, As it will
diminish it's rapid thrift, 30 necessary to
the well-d.veloded cow My own warm
calf stable is within thirty feet of the
dairy house, where The warm milk is
readily taken by the butter maker. They
drink all they want and are contented.
In very cold or stormy weather they do
not go out of the stable, but when the
genial season comes on they run out into
a five or six acre blue grass lot adjoining
and craze or play at their leisure as best
pleases them. As a consequence of such
treatment they are always in good con.
dition. even to fatness for the butcher,
if so needed; or accident occurs to them.
The stable contains an average of fifteen
to twenty in number of feeding calves
according to the season. and winter calves
are as easily reared as spring calves.-L.
F. Allen, in Stockman and Farmer.